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Poland Begins Handing Out Iodine Pills On Fears Of Ukraine Nuclear Plant Meltdown
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[–]CreditKnifeMan 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun - 1 year ago (4 children)
Hopefully, they're also including selenium supplements.
Iodine can deplete your body of selenium, and it loses it's efficaciousness.
If you want iodine supplements, then order 2% Lugol's iodide solution (2% iodine, and 4% iodide solution IIRC), and the complimenting selenium drops.
That's what doctors used, when they actually practiced medicine.
Lugol's iodide useful for numerous applications.
[–]SoCo 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 1 year ago (3 children)
If you have thyroid issues, you probably can't take iodine supplements safely, even with the selenium. I suspect people may damage their thyroid taking iodine in a panic.
Gouging yourself with iodine is not the safest thing and only for an emergency....to make you feel better before you die a slow and painful death of radiation poisoning, most of which iodine can't help against in the slightest. It is a duck-and-cover nuclear fallout equivalent.
[–]CreditKnifeMan 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 1 year ago (2 children)
Gouging yourself with iodine is not the safest thing and only for an emergency....to make you feel better before you die a slow and painful death of radiation poisoning, most of which iodine can't help against in the slightest.
Radioactive iodine is a material that can be ingested and become trapped in the body.
Saturating the body with stable iodine will minimize absorbtion of radioactive iodine.
It is a duck-and-cover nuclear fallout equivalent.
If you want supplemental blast protection, then maybe try Americium. It's used in smoke detectors, and Capitan America's super serums. Cause America.
[–]SoCo 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 1 year ago (1 child)
Radioactive iodine is only a small portion of the wide types of radiation you need to defend from, but it is the only one with a simple way to defend from. It's mostly a feel good measure to keep the public from panicking.
[–]CreditKnifeMan 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 1 year ago (0 children)
Radioactive iodine is only a small portion of the wide types of radiation you need to defend from, but it is the only one with a simple way to defend from.
Yep.
It's mostly a feel good measure to keep the public from panicking.
I seriously doubt radiation is the super Boogeyman that they claim.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki rebuilt with minimal issues.
Fukushima seems to have walked it off.
Are you familiar with Galen Windsor?
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